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Why the GTM playbook stopped working.

31-07-2026 10:06 via thenextweb.com

The old SaaS GTM playbook is getting expensive and invisible. Three startups stopped optimising it and started building things buyers actually wanted. The go-to-market playbook didn’t stop working because it was wrong. It stopped working because it was right, and then everyone started running it at the same time. Every SaaS company is running some […]
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Meta fined $567M for failing to protect teens

07-08-2026 03:30 via socialmediatoday.com

A New Mexico judge said the state is facing a youth mental health crisis and cited Meta as a key contributor.

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Meta fined $567 million for failing to protect teens

07-08-2026 03:30 via socialmediatoday.com

A New Mexico judge said that the state is facing a youth mental health crisis, and Meta is a key contributor to this.

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Australia’s teen social bans are having little effect

07-08-2026 01:33 via socialmediatoday.com

A new report showed that usage hasn’t changed significantly as teens continue to check in by getting around the restrictions.

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Meta executive offers data center insights

07-08-2026 01:19 via socialmediatoday.com

Rachel Peterson, vice president of data centers, discussed the company’s approach to building and community engagement in an interview posted on the site.

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YouTube expands shopping affiliate program to the UK

07-08-2026 01:14 via socialmediatoday.com

Creators who join will be able to tag products from partner merchants including Wayfair, Currys, Debenhams, Boots, M&S and Etsy.

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TikTok shutters Nashville office, lays off 250 employees

06-08-2026 23:44 via socialmediatoday.com

The move impacts the company’s moderation staff and is set to take effect October 5, according to a report from the New York Times.

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Head of Product at X steps down

06-08-2026 22:59 via socialmediatoday.com

Nikita Bier is leaving after just over a year, but said in a post on the app that he’s staying on as an advisor.

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Google built an AI translator that runs entirely offline on a Raspberry Pi

06-08-2026 22:29 via thenextweb.com

Google and its Antigravity team have built a prototype AI translator that runs entirely offline on a Raspberry Pi 5. The Gemma Translator uses Gemma 4 E2B, the smallest model in Google’s open-weight family, to process speech locally without any cloud connection. The device includes a microphone and speaker inside a custom 3D-printed enclosure, creating […]
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Gravity raised $30.5M to place ads inside AI chatbots. Its next product targets the bots themselves.

06-08-2026 21:24 via thenextweb.com

Gravity, an adtech startup that places ads inside AI chatbots, raised a $30.5 million Series A co-led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Committed Capital. The round brings total funding to $38.5 million. The company runs a full-stack ad platform: a demand-side platform for buying ads within AI chatbots and agents, a supply-side platform for developers […]
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His AI fund lost 67% in a month. Thousands still copy his trades

06-08-2026 20:29 via thenextweb.com

The AI trade blew up its own poster child last month, and thousands of people decided to keep betting on him. More than 5,000 retail investors are still mirroring Leopold Aschenbrenner’s stock portfolio, Business Insider reported, even after his hedge fund nearly imploded. They do it through Autopilot, an app that builds portfolios from the […]
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OpenAI removes the daily limit on free ChatGPT chats and upgrades the default model to GPT-5.6 Luna

06-08-2026 20:28 via thenextweb.com

OpenAI is removing usage limits on text chats for free ChatGPT users, the company announced on Thursday. The change means free users can send unlimited text-only messages without hitting a daily cap. Limits on image generation, file uploads, and voice tools will still apply. The company is also switching the default model for all users […]
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Adobe just put more than 70 of its tools inside ChatGPT

06-08-2026 20:11 via thenextweb.com

Adobe’s whole business is the apps creative professionals open every day. This week it put more than 70 of those tools inside a rival’s chatbot. The company has launched a single Adobe plugin for ChatGPT that pulls in Photoshop, Premiere, Lightroom, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat, Express, and its Firefly generative models. It replaces the handful of […]
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Google Maps can now order your food, book your hotel, and read your calendar. Ask Maps just became an agent.

06-08-2026 20:04 via thenextweb.com

Google Maps is no longer just giving directions. The company announced on Thursday that Ask Maps, the Gemini-powered conversational feature it launched in March, is gaining agentic capabilities that let it order food, book hotels, and find event tickets. Users can describe what they want in natural language, and Ask Maps will surface options, populate […]
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OpenAI and four rivals just agreed on one standard for AI agents

06-08-2026 20:00 via thenextweb.com

The AI race spent two years being about models. This week it moved to the plumbing. On the eve of GPT-5’s first birthday, OpenAI and four rivals published Agent Plugins, an open standard that lets a single agent extension work across competing products. The pitch is “build once, run anywhere”. Today, every agent tool expects […]
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DeepSeek made AI cheap. Now it is raising $8bn and buying robots

06-08-2026 19:49 via thenextweb.com

DeepSeek spent early 2025 proving that a good AI model did not have to cost a fortune. This week it has been busy proving it can spend one. In a handful of days, the Chinese lab reopened a multi-billion-dollar fundraising. It took a stake in the country’s best-known robot maker. And it told customers it […]
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Ford’s $30,000 electric truck is called the Fathom. It comes with BlueCruise, bidirectional charging, and a frunk as standard.

06-08-2026 19:39 via thenextweb.com

Ford’s affordable electric pickup truck now has a name and a price. The company announced on Thursday that the midsize EV will be called the Fathom, starting at $29,945 including destination. It is the first model built on Ford’s new Universal EV Platform, and it arrives after the company took a $19.5 billion writedown on […]
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Nvidia is building an AI safety team, and it has a business reason

06-08-2026 19:28 via thenextweb.com

You can read Nvidia’s philosophy in a job advert. The chipmaker is assembling a new AI safety and security engineering team, Business Insider reported. A cluster of listings posted late last month gives it away. The pitch is not caution about what AI might do. It is a bet that trust is what makes people […]
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Figma grew 48% and raised its outlook. The stock fell 16% because of AI costs

06-08-2026 16:19 via thenextweb.com

Figma did almost everything a young public company is asked to do. Revenue rose 48% to $370.1m, beating estimates, its third straight quarter of speeding growth. It raised its full-year forecast. The stock fell about 16% after hours anyway. The reason sits a few lines down the income statement. Building and running AI is expensive, […]
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Etsy is cutting 12% of its staff. It just beat forecasts and launched a $2bn buyback

06-08-2026 15:57 via thenextweb.com

Etsy beat Wall Street on revenue, raised its outlook, and told investors it would buy back $2bn of its own shares. Then it said it was cutting 12% of its staff. The craft marketplace announced a restructuring on Wednesday that removes roughly 220 roles, most of them in product and engineering, CNBC reported. That leaves […]
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Apple’s Private Relay is supposed to hide your IP. Researchers found three ways it doesn’t

06-08-2026 15:27 via thenextweb.com

Apple’s Private Relay is supposed to hide your IP address. Researchers have found three ways it does not. The paid feature, part of an iCloud+ subscription, masks your real IP address while you browse in Safari. But three flaws in WebKit, Apple’s browser engine, quietly route some traffic around it. Security researchers Talal Haj Bakry […]
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Samsung wants to float AI data centres in Texas. The state just froze the grid they need

06-08-2026 15:13 via thenextweb.com

The floating data centre has moved from concept to contract. Samsung Heavy Industries and the Dallas firm Mousterian have signed an engineering deal to design one, The Register reported. The first project is bound for Texas. The pitch is a neat answer to the AI buildout’s two tightest constraints: land and water. A moored facility […]
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Inevitable AI Group closes $6M pre-seed round led by Aleph to bring SaaS to the AI age

06-08-2026 15:00 via thenextweb.com

Inevitable AI Group (IAIG), an AI-native venture studio established by technology entrepreneurs, today announced the successful closure of a $6 million pre-seed financing round led by venture capital firm Aleph, a company behind several unicorns such as Melio, HoneyBook and Lemonade. The company runs a venture studio that builds and launches dozens of AI-first software […]
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Microsoft’s AI business is booming. A filing shows most of it is just OpenAI

06-08-2026 14:45 via thenextweb.com

Microsoft’s AI business looks like a triumph. Its shares jumped after earnings last week, and the AI unit is growing fast. A new filing shows how much of that rests on a single partner. Microsoft booked $24.1 billion in revenue from OpenAI during the year to June, Bloomberg reported. The company disclosed the figure in […]
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Sequoia Capital is putting $10bn behind AI and ‘reindustrialization’

06-08-2026 14:42 via thenextweb.com

Sequoia Capital, is making the largest bet in its history, and it is not only about software. The venture firm is committing $10bn to a strategy built around artificial intelligence and what it calls reindustrialization. The figure is a statement in itself. At $10bn, it is the biggest investment Sequoia has made in its 54-year […]
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China opens a cybersecurity review into Palo Alto Networks

06-08-2026 14:35 via thenextweb.com

China has trained its regulators on one of America’s biggest security companies. Authorities have launched a cybersecurity review into Palo Alto Networks, a move that deepens an already tense standoff. The review is a powerful instrument. In China, this kind of examination can restrict a company’s ability to sell into critical sectors while it is […]
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Unitree’s IPO could value China’s robot champion at $7bn or more

06-08-2026 14:30 via thenextweb.com

China’s best-known robot maker is about to test the public markets. Unitree could be worth more than 50 billion yuan, roughly $7bn, after its Shanghai listing, according to its IPO sponsor.The estimate comes from CITIC Securities. As the deal’s sponsor, CITIC set out the valuation as Unitree kicked off pricing for its float on Shanghai’s […]
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X’s head of product Nikita Bier is stepping down after a year

06-08-2026 14:23 via thenextweb.com

One of X’s most visible executives is heading for the door. Nikita Bier is stepping down as the platform’s head of product after roughly 13 months in the job. He arrived with a specific reputation. Bier is a serial entrepreneur known for building viral apps aimed at teenagers, and he joined X in July 2025 […]
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WindBorne’s AI beats the government’s weather forecasts. Making money from them is the harder problem

06-08-2026 14:16 via thenextweb.com

WindBorne Systems has raised $37 million to sell something it has already proven it can build: weather forecasts that beat the government’s. The Series B, reported by TechCrunch, was co-led by Khosla Ventures and Galvanize and values the company at $250 million. It takes WindBorne’s total funding past $62 million. The forecasting is the easy […]
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Berlin’s Moss becomes a unicorn betting on ‘controllable’ finance AI

06-08-2026 14:04 via thenextweb.com

Another European fintech has joined the unicorn ranks. Berlin-based Moss has raised €30m in a Series C round that values the spend-management company at more than €1bn. The round was led by Portage. The specialist fintech investor headlined the raise, with existing backer Cherry Ventures also taking part, extending its bet on a company it […]
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